Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Belmont, Illinois

The following discussion is an archived debate of the proposed deletion of the article below. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.

The result was delete. MBisanz ^talk 03:00, 7 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Belmont, Illinois

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Another hoax article by the same user. Another USGS link to an unrelated place. How did he get away with it for this long? Smartyllama (talk) 17:08, 29 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Note: This debate has been included in the list of Illinois-related deletion discussions. • Gene93k (talk) 19:55, 29 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete. The populated place may be real (GNIS 421703) and the coordinates appear to be correct. However everything else about the article follows the creator's pattern of piling hoaxes on top of true foundations. Unverifiable. • Gene93k (talk) 20:01, 29 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Keep, but remove all that isn't verified if it's a real place, this is really a content dispute best resolved by removing all unsourced content rather than deleting the article. Carlossuarez46 (talk) 22:32, 30 June 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Once the unverified content is removed, all that's left is a GNIS entry for a "populated place." The USGS does not call it a community. • Gene93k (talk) 19:12, 4 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

Delete as there's enough factual questionability here to delete altogether. SwisterTwister talk 07:16, 1 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete There's nothing worth saving here, given the creator's history. TheCatalyst31 ^{Reaction•Creation} 00:43, 2 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]
Delete, very little on the page appears to be true. However, there does seem to be a location called Belmont at the spot identified by GNIS and it's been on maps since at least 1908 as shown on historical maps. A station does not appear at Belmont on this 1898 railway map. The fact that there is a Belmont Road and a Belmont station (Metra) seems to indicate some historical use of the place name. However, it does not appear to be much there worth creating or keeping an article for. I can't find any significant mention in google books. Maybe a Burlington & Quincy R.R. history book would mention it, but I doubt that much of an article could be created. --Dual Freq (talk) 19:18, 4 July 2016 (UTC)[reply]

The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.